Complete Guide: Installing sensord on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) 2024

1. Install "sensord" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install sensord on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                sensord
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "sensord" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall sensord on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                sensord
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the sensord package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: sensord
Priority: extra
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 83
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Architecture: amd64
Source: lm-sensors
Version: 1:3.4.0-2
Depends: lm-sensors, lsb-base (>= 3.2-13), libc6 (>= 2.7), librrd4 (>= 1.3.0), libsensors4 (>= 1:3.1.1)
Suggests: rrdtool
Filename: pool/universe/l/lm-sensors/sensord_3.4.0-2_amd64.deb
Size: 20890
MD5sum: 551ac0963c59b77f990eac92ae130fec
SHA1: f1644382404d87857315894228cab3fd4d6062bd
SHA256: fe71f65ca267f4a168c688faf09c2261f5ec47e2c0cc4230baeb392fa68f2b85
Description-en: hardware sensor information logging daemon
Lm-sensors is a hardware health monitoring package for Linux. It allows you
to access information from temperature, voltage, and fan speed sensors. It
works with most newer systems.
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This package contains a daemon that logs hardware health status to the
system log with optional warnings on potential system problems.
Description-md5: 5995c06b967283ed183ddeed13106b0d
Homepage: http://www.lm-sensors.org
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu